Tjampoeron is a subject named in General Swart, Pacifier of Atjeh (1943) by M. H. du Croo, in connection with the history of Atjeh and the governorship of H. N. A. Swart.
Account in du Croo’s Generaal Swart (1943)
From Meergebied
Consequently the troops took blows. On 24 December 1909 a group of infantry returning from Samarkilang was surprised in its marching bivouac at Tjampoeron; the European sergeant and brigade commander, six men and four convicts were killed, and seven fusiliers and four convicts wounded. “Around these captured carbines there formed the dangerous Telong band, which kept the Lake District in turmoil for nearly two years.”
From Samarkilang
Als onze jagers het hem ál te lastig maakten, week hij voor een tijdje uit naar het toen nog vrijwel onbekende gebied van Samarkilang en het Oostelijke Gajoland, H. C. Zentgraaff wrote. On 24 December 1909 a group of infantry returning from Samarkilang was surprised at Tjampoeron, the captured carbines forming the Telongbende. In 1911 ladangs and hiding-places of Tgk. di Barat were cleared up in the Samarkilang country. On 10 July 1917 a patrol under the native sergeant Toegimin found in the forest near Samarkilang an insignificant ladang with two houses; two unknown Acehnese were shot, and Acehnese of Samarkilang seeing the body threw themselves to the ground in reverence, crying “Teungkoe, be not angry — it was not our fault.” From the Teungkoe’s last followers formed the Samarkilang-bende, whose head was captured only in 1937.
From The resistance in Atjeh 1908–1912
Consequently the Dutch troops took blows. On 24 December 1909 a group of infantry returning from Samarkilang was surprised in its marching bivouac at Tjampoeron; the European sergeant and brigade commander, six men and four convicts were killed, while seven fusiliers and four convicts were wounded. Around the captured carbines formed the dangerous Telongbende, which kept the Meergebied in commotion for nearly two years.
See Also
- Meergebied
- Samarkilang
- The resistance in Atjeh 1908–1912
- Telongbende
- H. N. A. Swart
- General Swart, Pacifier of Atjeh (1943)
- Atjeh
Source
Generaal Swart, Pacificator van Atjeh (“General Swart, Pacifier of Atjeh”), by M. H. du Croo, Colonel K.N.I.L. (retired), with the collaboration of H. J. Schmidt, Titular Colonel K.N.I.L. (retired), with a foreword by His Excellency Lieutenant-General K.N.I.L. (retired) G. K. Dijkstra (Maastricht: N.V. Leiter-Nypels, 1943), passim.